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Old 07-19-2017, 11:20 PM   #93
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Originally Posted by Tarana View Post
I'm in the please please please modernize the spellings boat. Works much better with my text-to-speech. It's alright for you who want the stuff in its original, but while some of the spellings work, many others just don't translate well. These vision issues of mine are really a downer.
You've got a point! I'm working on a lovely old 1930s illustrated book, today I was testing it, turned on TTS, to hear 'colour' plate pronounced as 'col-OUR' plate, OU as in OUCH. Quite disconcerting!

The funny thing is that it is an American book, written by an American, and the use of 'colour' seems odd in the first place, though it may simply be the time period.

I don't usually modernize the books I create for myself, but I'm a little tempted in this instance!

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